#Reputation Quotes

“I say, without characters, fame lives long.”

“Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it.”

“'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed, When not to be, receives reproach of being, And the just pleasure lost, which is so deemed, Not by our feeling, but by others' seeing.”

“There is no love-broker in the world can more prevail in man's commendation with woman than report of valor.”

“I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.”

“After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.”

“Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.”

“The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate; For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.”

“Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing; ’twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.”

“We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.”

“That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect,For slander's mark was ever yet the fair;The ornament of beauty is suspect,A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.”

“'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed”

“My dear, dear Lord, The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation; that away Men are but gilded loan or painted clay... Mine honor is my life; both grow in one; Take honor from me, and my life is done.”

“Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I ha' lost my reputation, I ha' lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial!”

“Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.”

“Either our history shall with full mouthSpeak freely of our acts, or else our grave,Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth,Not worshipped with a waxen epitaph.”

“Nothing in his life became him like leaving it.”

“No particular scandal one can touch but it confounds the breather.”

“More fools know Jack Fool than Jack Fool knows.”

“Report me and my cause aright.”

“No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back- wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?”

“Good name in man and woman is the immediate jewel of their souls.”

“You have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser.”

“He's a soldier; and for one to say a soldier lies, is stabbing.”

“Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.”

“Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice.”

“It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.”

“The painful warrior famous for fight, After a thousand victories, once foil'd, Is from the books of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd”

“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.”

“The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them.”

“A man who gets the reputation of rising at dawn can sleep to noon.”

“By being seldom seen, I could not stirBut like a comet I was wondered at.”

“He that filches from me my good name robs me of that which enriches him and makes me poor indeed.”

“Your reputation is none of your business.”

“Greatest scandal waits on greatest state.”

“It's easier to explain price once than to apologize for quality forever.”

“Live in such a way that if someone should speak badly of you, no one would believe it.”

“Slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession.”

“When you do more than you're paid for eventually you will get paid for more than you do. This is a basic truth that also applies to Business, Sales or anything you do. Whatever your endeavor always provide more service than you get paid for and you will develop a reputation that will separate you from the rest.”

“When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners.”

“Speak me fair in death.”

“From the circumstances of my position, I was often thrown into the society of horse-racers, card-players, fox-hunters, scientific and professional men, and of dignified men; and many a time have I asked myself, in the enthusiastic moment of the death of a fox, the victory of a favorite horse, the issue of a question eloquently argued at the bar, or in the great council of the nation, well, which of these kinds of reputation should I prefer? That of a horse-jockey, a fox-hunter, an orator, or the honest advocate of my country's rights?”

“The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than the word of any enemy.”

“No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred.”

“Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.”

“It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.”

“Know my name is lost, By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit; Yet am I noble as the adversary I come to cope.”

“Done to death by slanderous tongue”

“The purest treasure mortal times can afford is a spotless reputation.”

“The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.”